Always an avid student, he has changed several avatars, qualifying for both engineering and medical college, winning a university gold medal in Economics, teaching all sorts of things including English as well as counselling young people in their teens and twenties for the last 30-odd years, being a librarian, a quizmaster, a sometime-journalist, an organizer of educational tours for students, a translator of Tagore for OUP, a cultural ambassador for India to the USA on behalf of Rotary International, a regular blogger for almost eight years now suvrobemused.blogspot.in & suvrooncemore.blogspot.in, a writer of short stories and essays in English and Bangla, and even poetry in French once upon a time, and a close collaborator with several people's doctoral work. He has even had a PhD done on him. He likes to say his ultimate aim is to find out how to live the good life in the time-tested sense.